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Storage locations

Assigning storage locations to your product variants allow you to quickly locate and pick items from your warehouse. The locations are displayed in Scan to Ship when you start and fulfill an order.

What is a storage location?

A storage location (or “warehouse bin”) can be set for each product variant. The format of a storage locations is up to you but usually follows some conventional format such as “D-12-4-2” where D is the warehouse aisle number, “12” is the rack number within the aisle, “4” is the shelf number, and “2” is the individual storage bin on the shelf. The following resources offer good tips and conventions to help you design your storage location naming system:

Storage locations can be viewed and updated from the Storage Locations page accessible from the dashboard page or the Shopify app menu.

Assign a single storage location

To assign a storage location to a product variant:

  1. From the Scan to Ship Dashboard, go to the Storage Locations page.
  2. Enter a SKU, barcode, or title into the search box to locate your product.
  3. Click on the Edit link next to the variant.
  4. Enter a storage location label into the text box and click the Save Changes button.

Upload multiple storage locations

To upload multiple storage locations, you will edit and upload a spreadsheet where each row specifies a product variant including it’s storage location as a text cell. It’s easy to get started by downloading a template spreadsheet from the Storage Locations page.

To download the template spreadsheet:

  1. From the Scan to Ship Dashboard, go to the Storage Locations page.
  2. Click the More actions dropdown button.
  3. Click the Get upload template menu item.
  4. Wait for your template file to be delivered to your email inbox. If you have a large number of products, this may take a few minutes.
  5. Open the template file in your spreadsheet editor, such as Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.

To upload your storage locations:

  1. Fill in the Storage Location column with your storage location labels.
  2. Navigate back to the Storage Locations page.
  3. Choose More actions → Upload...
  4. Select your file, then check the “Update storage locations” checkbox.
  5. Click the Upload button.
  6. Wait for an email confirmation that your storage locations have been updated. If you have a large number of products, this may take a few minutes.